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Brent Eamer
Brent Eamer
10 years ago

Hoping to hear it:

“Tick Tock….Tick Tock”

Jake
Jake
10 years ago
Reply to  Brent Eamer

Right at the end 😀

Brent Eamer
Brent Eamer
10 years ago
Reply to  Jake

Great!. I’ve yet to listen, still catching up
Busy night planting Siberian, Vates and Dwarf Blue Kale.

Jake
Jake
10 years ago

Jack… you’re losing it. Now you’re making up a split personality to legitimately debate with. 😛

Kate
Kate
10 years ago

Here in Northern New England the window for fall planting is closing very quickly.

Jose Garcia
10 years ago

Love these gardening shows. I was just thinking of the fall garden this weekend.

Brent Eamer
Brent Eamer
10 years ago

My window is closing fast as well. Pretty much limited to spinach, chard, maybe kale. Of course I push the radish envelope as far as I can

David T.
David T.
10 years ago

Glad your doing this show. Was just talking to my wife this morning about it. We’ve never tried a fall garden so looking forward to hear what you say about this as I listen while driving for work tonight.

Tim Covington
10 years ago

Thanks for this reminder. I placed my order with High Mowing Seeds while listening to the podcast.

Jose Garcia
10 years ago

Jack,

How tall are those beds on the picture? When I first started, I began with beds similar to those you have in the picture 10”. Those years were my best production years. Then I decided to do hugelkulture raised beds, so I raised the beds by another 10 inches and dumped the wood in them and covered with compost. My production went down and has never been the same. I always thought the beds were to high such that the water trickles down away from the roots of young plants.

This winter I will take them down to 8” boards. The trunks in the hugelbeds are already rotted so I can still use them If I break them.

Jose Garcia
10 years ago
Reply to  Jose Garcia

I saw those videos when you first published them. I think that’s what got me going on my raised hugelbeds. Nice to see them again That sure was a nice property. Good job dropping and keeping off all that weight.

Did you mean to link to a picture of the harvest on the last paragraph?

Ed Rollins
Ed Rollins
10 years ago

Jack, if you’re going to use pvc for bed cover ribs, use the grey elect. conduit pvc. I’ve used the white plumbing pvc and it doesn’t last and it will crack. The grey elect pvc lasts (I’ve had mine up for 3 seasons. I used the plumbing pvc first and it lasted less than one,) it bends easier, and it’s cheaper. I put an 18in piece of rebar in each corner and every 4 feet on each side. I then bend the conduit to fit over each piece of rebar and ran another piece straight over the tops – zip tied at each intersection. This creates a mini hoop house that I cover with 6 mil clear plastic during the winter for year round production ( I use 6in. pvc pipe, capped at both ends, painted black, 3/4 filled with water so it doesn’t crack in our Delaware winter and lay these between each row to provide additional heat during the night and cloudy days.) During the summer, I use the same frame to hold row cover to keep out cabbage worms, squash bugs, and squash vine borers (Yes, I have to hand pollinate the squash, but would any way.) During the winter the terrarium effect keeps me from having to water very often, but I do have irrigation in the beds that allows me to introduce both water and compost tea when needed. To me, fall and winter gardening is truly the skill to master. There is nothing like going out to the garden, brushing the snow off off the plastic and harvesting fresh lettuce, broccoli, and spinach.

Ken S.
Ken S.
10 years ago

Kale leaf trick – pick them, bag em, freeze em then thaw and sauté or steam. Good way to tenderize this beast.
And be extra careful with those aquariums, or any greenhouse contraptions made from plate glass. Horrific, potentially life ending cuts if they break when being moved around. Chime in on what happened to you John, if you’re out there.
The storm door green house idea sounds pretty good.

Brent Eamer
Brent Eamer
10 years ago

I use a conduit bender and make two 45 degree angles then a 90, slide it over rebar, EMT is much sturdier, up here anyway

Digitalcjc
Digitalcjc
10 years ago

Anyone have suggestions for how to keep deer out? (I don’t think I’ve ever seen a deer fence in pictures and videos of Jack’s place).

Digitalcjc
Digitalcjc
10 years ago

Lol…well I live in SoTex and I have photos of the buggers standing in line at the gate of my garden area…think I’ll try the electric-wire thing!

Jose Garcia
10 years ago
Reply to  Digitalcjc

You have a deer garden.

RonBoots
RonBoots
10 years ago

According to Jo Robinson’s Book “Eating on the Wild Side” broccoli loses half its nutrients within 24 hours of being picked. If true, another reason to grow your own and eat fresh!

RonBoots
RonBoots
10 years ago
Reply to  RonBoots

You are probably right on the flash freeze. I know some vegatable/fruits degrade with freezing while others hold their nutrients pretty well. I was more alluding to eating it fresh from the garden instead of some that has been shipped from who knows where!

Micheal Jordan "the BeeWhisperer"

love it Big Jack.
planting now for Early spring flowers for the bees is good too.

I do not think I will be doing much over the next few months at my place. I have plans.

Micheal Jordan "the BeeWhisperer"

good management. Rmember I told you you will have a great hive, a weak hive and a EH hive. The object is to make them all the same around the B+ range.
Jashon is a good mentor

one need a mentor

Micheal Jordan "the BeeWhisperer"

Sorry my fingers are too big for the key board.

Jason is a good mentor everyone needs a mentor. It helps the mentor lean his stuff.

melodee
melodee
10 years ago

hey Jack,

when talking about fertilizers, you said ‘blood meal’, then corrected yourself with ‘bone meal’ for nitrogen… were you right the first time? thanks

melodee
melodee
10 years ago

great thanks 🙂

Brent Eamer
Brent Eamer
10 years ago

Yes, Jack, finally my garden is booming, but the lettuce is bolting, in the function stack state of mind, that is my seed for next year. Picked some Poblano’s now making a chili now to pressure can tomorrow. Mousemelons need another two weeks…

The New Mike
10 years ago

It’s funny seeing some of the progressions you got at your place because how much they’re mirroring some of the things we’re doing here. The one thing I”ve learned this last year (and late last year) is the smaller you can make your garden the better (minus doing bulk things like onions/garlics/sweet potatos). Not to mention more confined. The more I think about it the more I like the idea of doing raised beds, and the biggest thing that has been keeping me from putting in our new garden (english style) is that I am going to have to till up the ground and do a hell of a lot of work. I mean a hell of a lot.

I could build raised beds in hell a few hours, get a couple truck loads of soil, add ammendments, done. The 4 asparagus beds that we have that we built (Raised beds) have no weeds. Our massive amazing looking (when weeded) contour garden? Totally and completely out of control. We’re looking at turning it into an orchard.

Julia
10 years ago

Hey Jack,

Have you tried Roasted Cabbage? It is super yummy. Cut your cabbage into slices. Place flat across a cookie sheet. Sprinkle olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic and parm cheese. Put in an oven at 400 F until it is just slightly browned. (about 35 minutes).

This makes the texture and taste so much better. I find raw cabbage to be a little gross. This recipe turns cabbage into a treat. Even my toddler enjoys eating this.

EricM
EricM
10 years ago
Reply to  Julia

In a similar vein to this, my very polish mother would chop up cabbage and sweat it down in a pot with a little bit of butter. Then once it sweated down significantly she would take the lid off and boil the juice off, while browning the cabbage. We would eat that with kielbasa (polish sausage, not sure how commonly known it is). Absolutely exceptional! The browned pieces of cabbage are fantastic.

D a n
D a n
10 years ago

I’m having a problem finding the organic choice liquid fertilizer around where I live in south central Pennsylvania. I have a couple of peppers that started to yellow so Im trying the Epson salt trick of watering them with it mixed in water. Guess I could also use the bone meal I have.

I also used Prime to order a bag of worm casting and rock dust for my garden. Should those only be added before planting or periodically throughout the season?

Dawn
Dawn
10 years ago

I add a ton of greensand, lava sand, Soil Mender’s Planters II Minerals, and Azomite to all my beds in copious quantities. I was was modelling it after John Kohler’s work on you tube, Growing Your Greens. Minerals make all the difference on the taste. I have some other in ground beds that are just compost amended to the native East Texas soil and I do not have half the flavor on the exact same cultivars grown in it. The soil really does make the taste.

Jerry Ward
10 years ago

For those of us that don’t have the days to harvest memorized like Jack does check out http://clydesvegetableplantingchart.com/Vegetable-Garden-Planner.aspx

It is a cool sliding card that has most common plants and you can see your first and last planting date. Only $5 shipped to you. I love it.

Charles
Charles
10 years ago

Jack –
Regarding your recipe for your raised beds: I ran it by Steve Solomon (he was one of your guests – his new book is The Intelligent Gardener) on his Yahoo Forum called soil and health. I just referred to you as “my friend”. Here is his response:

“I no longer do things that way even though that approach will almost certainly grow plants your friend will consider vegetables, and because he grew them, the novelty, the pleasure, will make him think they are delicious. But how does your friend know he needs heaps of K and some Mg from greensand or phosphorus and why not zinc or copper or manganese or sulfur? Or calcium !!
And by the way, that “soil mix” is not soil, and in a few years all that ‘ll be left of it is the sand. To grow stuff well, sand does not need to hold half compost, although half compost won’t do harm unless it unbalances everything in terms of mineral elements.

Steve”

Aaron
Aaron
10 years ago

Jack,

I was going to put in some garden beds like yours. On your boxes did you use pressure treated lumber? Do you think that if I used pressure treated lumber, I would have leaching issues. Also regarding treated wood, should I not use it to build a chicken coop and duck house?

Thank you,

Aaron